The website is based on the DataShine platform so it offers the same functionality as our England and Wales mapping (including PDF map export and custom colour palettes), but with a number of customisations like quick links to a selection of eight Scottish cities (these appear in the panel at the bottom of the website). We’ve added a few innovations too, such as using specimen postcodes to identify a “real world” name for each output area. The selected census data on each area, and its specimen postcode, are displayed automatically when “mousing over” the map.

We have also taken the opportunity to slightly simplify the user interface, allowing the map itself to continue to be the dominant feature of the website. The website takes full advantage of the DataShine “look”, with the census choropleth maps shining through the detailed building shapes across the country. Roads, railways, rivers and seas, along with area labels, are then added for context. The Ordnance Survey has provided the building shapes and other geographical detail that we use, through their Open Data suite of products.

We are additionally now launching DataShine Scotland Commute. This website maps the travel-to-work flows between the 32 council areas of Scotland as well as to/from England/Wales (see here for the within England/Wales flows). The flows can be split out by 10 different modes of transport. We hope to include finer-grained commuting patterns for Scotland, should the relevant metrics become available in the future.

Images: Top – Just under 5% of journeys to work in Edinburgh by bicycle. DataShine Scotland highlights the areas where those people live. Middle – A view of the dynamic colour ramp and constantly updating metadata display, in the Key panel. Bottom – The volume of commutes into, and out of, Glasgow, from neighbouring council areas.

DataShine Scotland, and the screenshots here, include imagery that is CC-By OpenStreetMap contributors, Crown Copyright and Database right Ordnance Survey, and Crown Copyright National Records of Scotland.

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